Introduction: The Political Economy of Health and CarePart One: Locating Health Care1: Paul Williams, Raisa Deber, Pat Baranek, and Alina Gildiner, all at University of Toronto: From Medicare to Home Care: Globalization, State Retrenchment and the Privatization of Canada's Health Care System2: Joel Lexchin, University of Toronto: Pharamaceuticals: Politics and Policy3: David Coburn: Health, Health Care, and Neoliberalism4: Colin Leys, Queens University: The British National Health Service in the Face of Neo-LiberalismPart Two: Locating Evidence5: Linda Muzzin, University of Toronto: Academic Capitalism and the Hidden Curriculum in the Pharmaceutical Sciences6: Pat Armstrong: Evidence-Based Health Care Reform: Women's Issues7: Eric Mykhalovskiy, University of Toronto: Towards a Sociology of Knowledge in Health Care: Exploring Health Services Research as Active DiscoursePart Three: Locating Risk8: John Eyles, McMaster Institute of Environment and Health: A Political Ecology of Environmental Containation?9: Peggy McDonough, York University: Work and Health in the Global Economy10: Dennis Raphael, University of Toronto: From Increasing Poverty to Societal Disintegration: The Effects of Economic Inequality on the Health of Individuals and CommunitiesContributorsIndex.